airfare is so crazy
airfare is so crazy
Hi,
I booked our air for our april 2009 trip in august2009. We are on united and had a direct flight from ohare to stt, but the return was on usair to charlotte and then united to ohare. We paid 490.00 pp round trip which I could live with that price so thats why I booked. Since then the price has done several increases and decreases. I was never really thrilled about the return flight and kept checking the price on a return flight on united from stt-sju-ord, no plane change just stop in sju, wishing it would drop enough so I could change flights without the penalty. Anyway to make a long story short today the price on the united return flight with just the layover was 270.00pp round trip. I called united and they changed us to that flight and are sending a voucher for 33.00. I am so happy, i really wanted that flight in the first place. So now we are on one airline with a direct flight to stt and just a layover on the return.
Just keep checking for better fares and better flights.
Nancy
I booked our air for our april 2009 trip in august2009. We are on united and had a direct flight from ohare to stt, but the return was on usair to charlotte and then united to ohare. We paid 490.00 pp round trip which I could live with that price so thats why I booked. Since then the price has done several increases and decreases. I was never really thrilled about the return flight and kept checking the price on a return flight on united from stt-sju-ord, no plane change just stop in sju, wishing it would drop enough so I could change flights without the penalty. Anyway to make a long story short today the price on the united return flight with just the layover was 270.00pp round trip. I called united and they changed us to that flight and are sending a voucher for 33.00. I am so happy, i really wanted that flight in the first place. So now we are on one airline with a direct flight to stt and just a layover on the return.
Just keep checking for better fares and better flights.
Nancy
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I don't know if this is the same situation or not - but when we had a fare drop through United on the same flight, we also were able to get voucehers for the difference. But, instead of us checking everyday, we used a free service through YAPTA.com.
They alerted us to the fare difference automatically via email. Once again, this was not a change in flights, just change in the fare for the flight we already booked.
The only problem we encountered was that our orignal flight was booked through United and included US Airways flights. In order to use the United vouchers, we had to fly on United only flights unlike the original flight which had US Airways and resulted in the voucher.
They alerted us to the fare difference automatically via email. Once again, this was not a change in flights, just change in the fare for the flight we already booked.
The only problem we encountered was that our orignal flight was booked through United and included US Airways flights. In order to use the United vouchers, we had to fly on United only flights unlike the original flight which had US Airways and resulted in the voucher.
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thats why i use orbitz, because the have the low price garantee. which is when the price goes lower they send you a check for the difference. you can loose out with something like that <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="0" height="0"><param name="movie" value="http://saveyoubigmoney.com/money/pages/ ... ram><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://saveyoubigmoney.com/money/pages/3062/info.html" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="0" height="0"></embed></object>
Does anyone know if Delta has the same policy? The ticket price has dropped $30 since I booked.
cheers, Snorkles
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Snorkles-- It's a closely held policy by the airlines (they won't offer it to you -- you have to ask) but just about every airline will pay you the difference BUT you have to pay the rebooking fees which are generally around $100 per ticket.
So that means that in order to make it worth your while the price would have to drop mroe than $100 per ticket - which they apply and then can send you a voucher or refund the difference to your CC.
So in this case they got a better itinerary and few bucks out of the deal but in reality they still ended up paying $100 more per ticket than they probably would have liked.
Hope this helps...
So that means that in order to make it worth your while the price would have to drop mroe than $100 per ticket - which they apply and then can send you a voucher or refund the difference to your CC.
So in this case they got a better itinerary and few bucks out of the deal but in reality they still ended up paying $100 more per ticket than they probably would have liked.
Hope this helps...
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Thanks Gormit, I doubt it will drop any lower since my trip is slightly less than a month away. Who cares anyway as long as you got the ticket and know you are set to go.
cheers, Snorkles
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You guys up there are so lucky. Direct flight to STT??? What's that. I guess I'll have to move to get that deal. Yapta keeps sending me e-mails.......your 599. flight is down to 589. you can save 10. Big freakin deal. I booked that trip along time ago, I just like to get the e-mails to see if there ever is a really big sale that would be worth the re-booking cost. Never going to happen. For the life of me, I can't understand why Houston to Miami (yuck), Miami to STT has to be so expensive. It's only about 4.5 hrs. of air time. I can go to Hawaii for the same price.